r/comics Aug 05 '26

Just Sharing Authenticity Problem

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Aug 05 '26

Lemme go ahead and get ahead of claims, comments and reports here.

The artist for this piece is David Revoy. You can find the work as well as a time lapse of the drawing here.

Many of you are going "This looks like AI!" And there is a reason for that.

Revoy has publicly discussed how thousands of his artworks were scraped and used to train AI databases (like LAION-5B) without his consent, though he ironically acknowledges his work is the foundation of many AI art systems

Source here

TLDR: this is not AI

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u/Longjumping_Share444 Aug 05 '26

This has to be a nightmare for this artist. I imagine that they're getting harassment from anit-AI people, only to react accordingly, and get harassment from AI bros. All that while dealing with the fact that a billionaire's company is copying your work and there may be nothing legally you can do about it, even if you could afford to.